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I'm an Android developer and I have stands for 2 phones between my split keyboard (the Kinesis Gaming model, used to have the Advantage which I also love).

I keep the phones between my keyboard to focus on during development which doesn't address the more interesting part of your question.

I have many old phones around now, some that can't even be updated to support the minimum OS of the app I am building. So I have tried to figure out what to do with the old phones.

Most common android reuse case: IP Camera. There are a few different apps which turn your phone into an IP Cam. I have used old phones to watch my 3D printer, explore under the floor in my house (phone attached to stick), to watch/record plants grow, and as a security cameras. The problem is, often with these old phones, streaming live video will drain the battery faster than the charger can charge it. I'm still looking at workarounds for this latter issue. Depending on what you are trying to film it can be surprising how "good" the old Android cameras are.

I usually use this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pas.webcam...

The other thing I have done is turn them into dashboards, this is more applicable to tablets though.
Yeah - they're really seeming like vaporware... :-(

Given how small the trackball is, I'm not sure if I'd prefer the trackball or trackpoint/electric eraser
> You never even knew that you were fleeced of that penny.

I personally felt much more fleeced paying $9.99 a trade before Robinhood showed up.
I keep looking for something like a mechanical version of the MS Sculpt keyboard. I like that the sides are solidly attached, the slight tenting, and that there's a bit of a profile to the keys--they're not just planar. Too many of the ergonomic split keyboards are infinitely adjustable, but the adjustments are finicky.
This is not a Firefox issue

Quote from your link Nov 1, 2019

>we will soon start working on better Firefox support
I put all the code (that I can) under CC0 because I would like to have zero strings attached to reusing it. “Public domain” feels nice.

Also I don’t really believe in the concept of authorship, so I want to disavow it as much as possible.
Because Microsoft isn’t signing big clients on to it anymore, as they are slowly trying to transition (it’s very early days still) to GitHub Enterprise. They probably won’t talk much about it until the missing features are replicated, but it’s coming. (Based on anecdotes on previous threads about Azure DevOps, and the fact that GitHub is a bit more user friendly).
It was fine when they were allowing people to stay in their vehicles on the lower car deck and when it was nice enough to just go sit on the sun deck. But I was officially done with the ferries when I went over in October, the number of people on the ferry coupled with the idiots over at Transport Canada making people leave their cars meant it was far to crowded for me to feel safe.

The terminal being incredibly convenient makes the flight even more justified. I'd much rather take the Canada Line and then walk for a few minutes than having to line up early for a standing room only bus that goes out to the ferry terminal.
Indeed, I don't think the people arguing against JS are arguing against all uses of it --- rather, it's become synonymous with "client-side scripting/code execution", and even if that was a totally different language, the point still stands.
It depends on the amount of work that your customers need to do to migrate, the size of your user base, and your ability to communicate (and incentivize) the changes with them. The best option is to provide enough value that it is worth it to your users to pay the cost of migration. That’s not necessarily an easy thing to do.
Please don't post in the flamewar style to HN. Regardless of how right you are or feel, it only takes discussions into hell, and we're trying to avoid that here.

It's possible to make your substantive points while staying within the site guidelines, so please do that instead.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Watch out, FIFOs don't have buffers, so that echo will block. Running the echos in the background causes a race condition on execution order.
This has gotta be a publicity stunt. It can’t be very useful a analysis to get the input of one person on something as subjective as a mattress. Some folks like firm mattresses and others prefer soft ones. You’d think they’d want a varied pool of people to test their products.
> But they might be a career saver.

Seriously. I'll also plug vertical mice. They look goofy, but it's a better wrist position.
Dr. Elizabeth Bik is making efforts to detect image fraud in scientific papers and reading her findings has made me quite worried about not only the general accuracy of the data from lesser-known universities, but how difficult it is to retract/correct those through journals.

Check out her Twitter if you’re interested in the topic: https://mobile.twitter.com/microbiomdigest
I bought my first serious chair about 10 years ago, a Vitra model they don’t make anymore. It was over 1000 EUR here in Berlin.

The first day of working in it, I felt like an idiot for not having made that investment ten years earlier.

Now I’m starting a period of voluntary digital vagabondage and will need to explore ergonomics options other than “nice chair.” But I will probably keep that beast in storage.

If you can try them out at a showroom that’s best but in any case I 100% agree, buy from a reputable dealer, it will save you the headache of thinking about returns even if everything is perfect.
Ask questions. Do not become reliant on getting answers, learn to find them.
Competition makes it harder for malicious actors to manipulate everyone's content, but lets not pretend that companies don't know how to create the illusion of competition [1,2]

We already have the problem of people creating too many filter-bubbles in their online lives. A fragmented social media environment will not usher in an age where everyone gets exposed to a more diverse set of ideas, we'll just get FoxNewsBook and MSNBCBook, or ChristianTube and MuslimTube, or whatever other social groups happen to be the most defining.

Moderated communities are basically the HOA neighborhoods of the internet. There is nothing wrong with liking the high property values, but competition alone does not prevent their abuses [3].

[1] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/expresident/all-the-por...

[2] https://www.foodbeast.com/news/pepsi-boycott-kendall/

[3] https://www.businessinsider.com/personal-finance/homeowners-...
There are huge differences between running with user as sudo and running as root itself. Much more of an audit trail with sudo. You can trace which account ran which command. Sure you can cover your tracks with sudo but it's far harder than with bare root, even more so with shared accounts.
I find myself being more sympathetic to YouTube than most commenters here. It seems we want YT to both provide editorial oversight so that e.g. mass murderers are not given a platform to flaunt their crimes, and to provide a platform where anyone can start livestreaming at any time, anywhere.

The way broadcast media handles this is they have an editorial policy that is applied by humans producing a single stream at a time. There are multiple people monitoring everything a news station puts out at all times. It's kind of hard to see that happening with YouTube.

So while I think YT policies can probably be improved, I don't think it's ever going to be a great environment for content that depends on editorial staff to exist. Any moderation policy YT takes has to be applied to what must be billions of videos now. Complaining that they're not doing what broadcast media does feels like going to McDonalds and complaining that the chicken McNuggets aren't made of filet. It's part of the product, not a kink that can be ironed out.
Former Google CEO and others call for U.S.-China tech “bifurcation”
One strategy: https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/product/trackball although not yet shipping.

I put a trackpad to the left of my keyboard and taught myself to mouse with my left, as well as right, hand, and it's been a big improvement. Right hand is still stronger but my left hand is now functional for many tasks.
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> "space and quantity"

That's a rather narrow view even of mainstream mathematics IMO.
The actual target of a PSY-OP can be hard to ascertain, as they are fundamentally deceptions. One mustn't assume other countries are necessarily intended targets.

There is no reason to believe there was ever any expectation that ESP would work for spying, or that any actual effort was undertaken to try. However, a great deal of work went into convincing Americans that it had been attempted. Ultimately, that work has to be seen as the actual point of the operation. There is no clear indication of the purpose of the operation.

Jon Ronson's (terrifying) book, "Men Who Stare at Goats", explored the history of the operation and the group that perpetrated it. He made clear that it is not just historical, but an ongoing operation, a successful attack on the American public.

Ronald Reagan's Star Wars "Strategic Defense Initiative" could very easily have been primarily a PSY-OP against the USSR. A great deal of money was spent with very little direct result, but the USSR military went apeshit over it and crashed their whole economy. (Disclosure: I flew to a semiconductor conference in Hungary in 1987, on SDI money via AFNOR, with a stopover in East Berlin.)
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar hell. We're trying to avoid that here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> There are millions of people whose livelihood depends on publishing, so they will publish anything they'll get away with.

This is also the problem with the iOS App Store and the Google Play store. They are modeled off Linux repositories, and those do not cause major problems. The phone app stores are riddled with problems, because you can charge for apps in those stores.

If you're willing to pay people to lie to you, they will. You have to make the tradeoff between higher participation with lots of fraud, and lower participation with not that much fraud.

> Top tier institutions seem to survive in some sort of bubbles.

Not really; compare Brian Wansink at Cornell. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Wansink )

Research output is reliable where it is actively relied on by engineers -- and not elsewhere. At this point, fraud is the norm and research is the exception in academia overall.
Surprised you didn't use at least MicroPython. I think Python on embedded in general is not great in a production setting, but at least MicroPython has widespread usage; CircuitPython is aimed at being a toy language for beginners.
Not sure why? That design has been solid for like 150 years...
We bought a Raspberry Pi 400 (the one in the keyboard) and a 27" monitor over Thanksgiving and that has been our TV for the kids that past couple months. Works great. Netflix, Amazon Prime, Youtube.

Don't remember how I got Widevine installed exactly, but if I remember right, it's a blob ripped from ChromeOS, which is why it only works for Chromium and not Firefox.
> However, it's possible to have a more lenient static type checker that only looks for cases where you're guaranteed to get an illegal operation at runtime. They answer the question "is this definitely wrong?"

If you're thinking about Erlang's Dialyzer, almost everyone I've heard talking about it says that it's difficult to understand and doesn't provide as much confidence as a regular type system would.
Web host gives FCC a 28.8Kbps slow lane in net neutrality protest (2014)
They can be full of it and in the right at the same time.
> Abstract algebra is basically the study of "number systems".

I don't think that's entirely correct.
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>supporting restrictions on speech and privacy violations

That's a confusing phrase. It took me a while to realize you meant "supporting privacy violations" rather than "supporting restrictions on privacy violations". You seem to be lumping speech restrictions and privacy violations into the same bucket, but I see them as very different, often even opposed to each other. The US elevates free speech higher than privacy. Europe elevates privacy higher than free speech. In many European countries the press isn't allowed to report the names or faces of suspects. In many European countries you can't take pictures of people walking on the street.

Doxing is a clear case where free speech is directly opposed to privacy. Same with right to be forgotten.
Your television and radio broadcasts have been "censored" and curated since the dawn of time. Newspapers have curated their content and various newspapers are known for having left or right bias.

This isn't just the stations own content. If you paid to put content on television, radio, or in the paper, the publisher has always had the right to publish or not publish content (with some limits, but nothing this article speaks about would be protected by law). You couldn't have a cable community access channel with whatever content you wanted.

YouTube/ Twitter/ Facebook have been and remain far more permissive in publishing outside content than any other media in history.

You are implying that there is some kind of "new" restrictions on speech, but this is literally hundreds of years old.
Google can shut your account for no reason and with no warning.

Pricing plans and other terms of service can (and will) abruptly change.

There is no guarantee that Google will even exist 20 years from now.

If we are talking about data that is to be handed down for generations, I certainly wouldn't trust Google as a solution. I do agree though that setting up self-hosted local/offsite backup, the kind described in the article, is out of reach for most users. Maybe redundant copies on every cloud storage provider will do the trick?
Yes, indeed, by and large (in 'Occidental' nations). However during those last ~25 years there are IMO more and more pushes towards censorship, from memory laws ( from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_laws ) to deplatforming ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deplatforming ). Albeit none of those is really new it seems to me that they are gaining speed.
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> the chair I ended up buying was like $500, delivered, with all the upgrades, because it was remanufactured

Did you order your remanufactured chair from Crandall or BOTD? I just ordered a remanufactured Steelcase Leap V2 yesterday, looking forward to its arrival!
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There is no actual evidence that it was cancelled, and substantial evidence of it continuing into the present. But the nature of the operation -- deception -- is clearly very different from what has been promoted.
It's not Adafruit (although they make lots of kits for it) but I'd advise the micro:bit v2 (https://microbit.org/new-microbit/)
I don't agree with this based on the specific example that she provided. Searching for legacy files, or annoying historical lessons, especially in a codebase you're entirely unfamiliar with, is a perfect example of a time to ask a question like that.

In fact, I might even put it as an oversight of the engineer that's guiding the new engineer if they didn't tell their coworker where the files are, especially when there's been a shift between old and new styles. It's okay, though, experienced engineers make mistakes, as well.
I always tell my interns: “I have been in this job for 10+ years and I’m still yet to tell anyone they’re asking too many questions.”

Seems to put them at ease :)
That's not my point. You wouldn't have had the development speed we've had the last 30 years. You wouldn't have had the same amount of devs. The same pickup on the web. The same worldwide connectivity.

Javascript is one of the, if not the, most influential technologies of the past 100 years. It changed the course of history. Can you say the same of, like, wxWidgets or whatever UI toolkit you'd be using for your native app?
When you are "browsing the web", i.e. looking for information and following links to various places, how much of your time is spent interacting with complex webapps vs. reading text, looking at images, and following links?

I would say that if you are using a webapp, you are not really "browsing the web" anymore, but simply interacting with an application in much the same way as if it was a local one.
Even though I wrote the app, I agree with your teacher about devices, but no conscious thought?.
Venezuela is an excellent example of a government unable to issue money arbitrarily, because they pegged their currency to the US dollar and accumulated debt in a currency over which they had no control.
This really reminds me of the pump&dumps around alt-coins and shit-coins back in the day...

Question is, how long will it last before reddit gets bored and moves on?
The point of a split keyboard is that you don't need to.move your arms, which are relaxed, or your hands. You only move your fingers, and keep your eyes away from the keyboard.

For that, you want such amount of keys which you can comfortably hit by moving just your fingers. It's normally 3 rows and 6-7 columns. And say 5+5 keys in the thumb clusters.

I personally find a layout like Kyria [1] optimal for such use.

[1]: https://splitkb.com/collections/cases-and-plates/products/ky...
If anyone can suggest a more accurate and neutral title, preferably using representative language from the article, I'd appreciate it. I think the story is about an interesting new phenomenon and therefore on topic for HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), but I don't think "Silicon Valley" is the right subject for that sentence, and it's not clear to me if the article is only about YouTube or just primarily.

We could change it to the article's main title, but it's a lot more obscure.
"Social psychology" has had a serious problem with scientific misconduct and statistical incompetence. Is this related in some way to that subject area?
Funny you should mention Aeropress. Years ago, before I had a printer, my girlfriend gave me her old aeropress, but had lost the cap. So I 3d printed one at the makerspace (our makerspace was full of Lulzbot printers, because they are just down the road from us).

It worked great maybe 10 or 15 times, until it violently failed during the press. Let me tell you, that makes an amazing mess! Luckily it was at the breakroom at the office. ;-D

The bltouch upgrade took me something like 30 hours to get the software right (because I had no idea how it looked when it worked, everyone seems to cut that out of their videos). But since then, that has really made printing trouble-free. I have almost no print failures since that.
Have you read Feeling Good? It has a part about mastery vs pleasure, specifically how they are independent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastery_and_pleasure_technique
If someone posts an inaccurate or untruthful comment that a reasonable person would not rely upon for their safety, I think the correct response is to mute, unfollow or retort (and if it's self-evident, hopefully it's easy to explain why it's inaccurate or link to countered evidence).

However, the imminent apprehension of harm (from a direct, credible or specific threat), does comport with the concept of assault and is grounds for moderation. Likewise, demonstrating proximate cause from someones actions to a specific harm/damages, would also be grounds for censorship.
The argument here is that if you want an artist to have access to your instance - even if only to occasionally use features that are available in the free tier - you have to shell out the full $1200/year.

Something like Maya or 3DSMax is something an artist can reasonably be expected to use a lot of the functionality of the product pretty often. Expecting an artist to use the majority of a gitlab license on a daily basis is a bit of a stretch.
At the highest levels it is played based on the cards in your hand. At some forms of poker computers are already unbeatable. Heads up fixed limit holdem is considered a "solved" game. http://poker.srv.ualberta.ca/about NLHE is on its way there, with top players making extensive use of software to study and develop strategy.
This is why OpenBSD has `doas`.
We have an unofficial motto of 'unlimited questions remaining'. This came initially from supporting our customers via live chat (SQL charting tool, so live help with SQL, analysis, etc) and that percolated throughout the company, especially on the eng team.

Like others said, I'd rather someone ask than spend 30 minutes spinning their wheels and not making progress. Even if it's asking where to look for something.

I think our explicit policy has helped, people certainly reference it as a positive.
*incoming nitpick

>If you're civil, respectful, and on-topic you're seemingly allowed to present just about any idea.

HN heavily follows the religion of scientism. If you reject science, you will be downvoted nearly immediately. HN forgets that the reason that we don't fog our kids with DDT anymore is because 'settled science' was questioned. Yes I am generalizing by using "HN".

This is still, however, one of my favorite platforms to read.
They might be exposed to legal risk if they don’t clamp down on this. As a non-bank they do not have the KYC and AML laws in place to actually comply with federal regulation, and you might be accidentally turning them into a money transmitter.
I'm using an Ergodox EZ which I really enjoy and I'm hoping wireless plus a trackball is in the next iteration. Even just being wireless (or a wireless add-on) would be great.
I disagree it's our fault for having enemies if we want to keep our values but regardless we have enemies now and I don't see them going away for a while.
SPAs and things like React brought on this phenomenon. To their credit, they're doing a great job digging us back out of this hole.

I read a lot of web dev subreddits where many/most members are newer developers. Virtually all of the sites they post render nothing at all with JS disabled. I point this out and suggest some ways to fix it. A few have appreciated the tips but most just don't care at all. I'm not sure how to effectively reverse this trend.
Right, so it's a bit more coarse then banning or allowing users, but if you selectively ban or allow topics that certain kinds of users want to talk about (or don't want talked about), you can definitely shape your user base.
>The constitution protects our freedom of speech from the government, not from private entities on their own private property. Make no mistake, that's what centralized social media platforms are - private property.

I'm getting pretty tired of this line. The American first amendment is not the same thing as the freedom of speech. People who value the freedom of speech aren't making arguments against these companies based on the law, they are stating this is a deterioration of liberal values.

Furthermore, the argument is that no corporation should have these powers that they do, thus the need to regulate or break up the large tech companies.